TY - JOUR
T1 - The ozone monitoring instrument
AU - Levelt, Pieternel F.
AU - Van Den Oord, Gijsbertus H.J.
AU - Dobber, Marcel R.
AU - Mälkki, Anssi
AU - Visser, Huib
AU - De Vries, Johan
AU - Stammes, Piet
AU - Lundell, Jens O.V.
AU - Saari, Heikki
PY - 2006/5
Y1 - 2006/5
N2 - The Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) flies on the National Aeronautics and Space Adminsitration's Earth Observing System Aura satellite launched in July 2004. OMI is a ultraviolet/visible (UV/VIS) nadir solar backscatter spectrometer, which provides nearly global coverage in one day with a spatial resolution of 13 km × 24 km. Trace gases measured include O3, NO2, SO2, HCHO, BrO, and OClO. In addition, OMI will measure aerosol characteristics, cloud top heights, and UV irradiance at the surface. OMI's unique capabilities for measuring important trace gases with a small footprint and daily global coverage will be a major contribution to our understanding of stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry and climate change. OMI's high spatial resolution is unprecedented and will enable detection of air pollution on urban scale resolution. In this paper, the instrument and its performance will be discussed.
AB - The Ozone Monitoring Instrument (OMI) flies on the National Aeronautics and Space Adminsitration's Earth Observing System Aura satellite launched in July 2004. OMI is a ultraviolet/visible (UV/VIS) nadir solar backscatter spectrometer, which provides nearly global coverage in one day with a spatial resolution of 13 km × 24 km. Trace gases measured include O3, NO2, SO2, HCHO, BrO, and OClO. In addition, OMI will measure aerosol characteristics, cloud top heights, and UV irradiance at the surface. OMI's unique capabilities for measuring important trace gases with a small footprint and daily global coverage will be a major contribution to our understanding of stratospheric and tropospheric chemistry and climate change. OMI's high spatial resolution is unprecedented and will enable detection of air pollution on urban scale resolution. In this paper, the instrument and its performance will be discussed.
KW - Air quality
KW - Atmospheric research
KW - Ozone layer
KW - Ultraviolet/visible (UV/VIS) satellite instruments
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/33646422253
U2 - 10.1109/TGRS.2006.872333
DO - 10.1109/TGRS.2006.872333
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33646422253
SN - 0196-2892
VL - 44
SP - 1093
EP - 1100
JO - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
JF - IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing
IS - 5
ER -